From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Hans Beckérus" <hans.beckerus@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re[2]: USB serial support / Prolific PL2303 Driver
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 09:03:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130408160351.GB12665@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyqS9oLTcc8dStUzF7XaLQYAQPK+VCsvuVkOmpW8g2rOjvv_Q@mail.gmail.com>
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:57:53PM +0200, Hans Beckérus wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response guys.
> Yes, putty is cross-platform, but I am actually running putty on
> Windows ;) It connects over the serial device on my laptop to the
> board running Linux. But Greg, you actually triggered me to check my
> hardware configuration and guess what? I was using the wrong kind of
> cable :) I used a simple male-female converter when I in fact had to
> use a cable that swapped Rx/Tx. My bad! But I have yet one more issue
> now. If I tell Linux to use my ttyUSB0 as console device on the boot
> cmdline, would it actually be able to start it in time?
Start in time for what?
You can use USB to serial devices as console devices just fine. I
really don't recommend them, but if you have no other way to get a
console, it's better than nothing.
> I am running with a 3.6 kernel btw.
That's a bit out-of-date :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-08 13:37 USB serial support / Prolific PL2303 Driver Hans Beckérus
2013-04-08 15:03 ` Greg KH
2013-04-08 15:06 ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2013-04-08 15:57 ` Hans Beckérus
2013-04-08 16:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-04-08 16:20 ` Hans Beckérus
2013-04-08 16:29 ` Greg KH
2013-04-08 17:35 ` Hans Beckerus
2013-04-08 18:19 ` Greg KH
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